Has it been so long? Has it been that long where the hurt all began, waking up with my pillow soaked in my tears. Drowning my thoughts and what they did to me...played those painful images again and again, images of no one standing up for me...all the pain and rejection. Has it been so long?Dreading the Saturday afternoons...wishing I could just run away, anywhere where I'd be love for who I am regardless of the clothes I wear, my choices in music and my choices I make and be love for being myself to feel accepted for who I am. But I was choking, I couldn't breathe...my chest hurt, it hurt so much...so much, I wished that I'd disappear from this pain...I wished for a hug, I wished for kind words, I wished for understanding...but all I felt was pain...that stabbing pain that never seems to go away. But as the days went by, You came to my rescue...You came to mend mt broken heart, You held me and wipe away my tears...You spoke your words of life, You came to take away this pain...it still hurts sometimes...but You still come to hold me in you arms, and tell me It's ok I love you.